Students want to SERVE!

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One of the best moves we ever made at oneChurch.tv was engaging our students at Relevant Students to serve every week on Sundays. Every we...

One of the best moves we ever made at oneChurch.tv was
engaging our students at Relevant Students to serve every week on Sundays.
Every week in our children’s environments and our preschool environments we
have students serving! They do everything from being small group leaders to
producers in our large group environments. Our Sunday morning environments
would suffer greatly if our Students didn’t serve every week.

In a couple of weeks Relevant Students is going to take our
fall retreat and we will be gone on Sunday morning. When me and my preschool
director sat down to talk about how we were going to fill wholes that are going
to be left by the students on the Retreat She was a tad freaked out! but I
couldn’t help but to be proud. I love the fact that our students have stepped
up and filled in gaps and have made the choice to invest in the lives of the
children younger than them. This is a huge win in the life of our organization.

There are so many reasons I would encourage a church to engage
students to serve and invest on Sunday mornings! Here is my top 3!!

Students want to
serve NOW – one of the things I love about the next generation is that they
want to engage now. They want to invest in lives and make a difference in their
world now. We have to embrace that and provide opportunities for them to use
their passion.

Making a difference
leads to Change – the first time I experienced God using me to make a
difference it changed me forever! If we can produce opportunities for students
to do that now imagine the potential we can unlock. Students have more
potential than we can possibly imagine the earlier we can tap in to that the
better.

It creates buy in – we
want students to be apart of our Church! We want them to have buy in for our
church as a whole not just what happens on Wednesday night. This is a way we
engage them to be a part of oneChurch.tv not just our student ministry. This
does that. Our student that serve love their church not just their “youth
group”

My addicition doesnt define me. Its a disease that I live with, but i will always be more than just an addiction. I fight every day to put the pieces back together. Thank you for taking part in my journey. You are not alone!